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Sole   /soʊl/   Listen
Sole

adjective
1.
Not divided or shared with others.  Synonym: exclusive.  "Sole rights of publication"
2.
Being the only one; single and isolated from others.  Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, solitary.  "A lonesome pine" , "An only child" , "The sole heir" , "The sole example" , "A solitary instance of cowardice" , "A solitary speck in the sky"
noun
1.
The underside of footwear or a golf club.
2.
Lean flesh of any of several flatfish.  Synonym: fillet of sole.
3.
The underside of the foot.
4.
Right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European.
verb
(past & past part. soled; pres. part. soling)
1.
Put a new sole on.  Synonym: resole.



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"Sole" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jermyn was one of his best friends, he felt a secret joy in not having prevented his being made a cuckold, before his marriage; and the apprehension he was in of preserving him from that accident, was his sole reason for quitting them with ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... state lotteries, the tickets are really not worth the price which is paid by the original subscribers, and yet commonly sell in the market for twenty, thirty, and sometimes forty per cent. advance. The vain hopes of gaining some of the great prizes is the sole cause of this demand. The soberest people scarce look upon it as a folly to pay a small sum for the chance of gaining ten or twenty thousand pounds, though they know that even that small sum is perhaps twenty or thirty per cent. more than the chance ...
— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith
... called a game, but the use of the sucker is so familiar to most boys that a description of it is surely not out of place in this chapter. A piece of sole leather is used, three or four inches square. It is cut into a circle and the edges carefully pared thin. A hole is made in the centre and a piece of string or top twine is knotted and run through the hole. The sucker is then soaked in water until it is soft and ...
— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller
... everything, including your fortune and my own honor, I have no longer an object in living. I therefore conclude that it will be best to efface myself as speedily as possible. I have made a will, leaving you my sole heir and executor. You are welcome to whatever you can save from the wreck. All papers belonging to your father and left in my charge will be handed you by ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe
... of joy; whate'er he knew of sadness He kept for his own heart's peculiar share: So well he sang, the world imagined gladness To be sole tenant there. ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris


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